#faithful

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply live in that freedom and let the Spirit do the work of transformation. ↗

— Mark Galli

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To commit to loving a person for five minutes is easy. To commit to loving a person for the rest of your life, after you have met them, is a strong commitment. But when you commit to loving a person before you meet them and for the rest of your life, you have made the strongest commitment one can make to a relationship. ↗

— Tom Houck

#faithfulness #love #loving #spouse #faith

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? ↗

— John Wesley

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Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person? ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#blessings #books #encouragement #inspirational #life

I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them. ↗

— Scott Baio

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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. ↗

— Federico Fellini

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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#done #faithful #god #good #hearts

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end. ↗

— George Crabbe

#creature #end #eye #faithful #friend

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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